My interest in any California job went to zero when he resigned. It was
low to start with, but now it is "California?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Say hello to the Gay Fascists.
David
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costs when it's free
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
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On 4/6/2014 11:37 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
Technology -- Quartz
Another surprising perspective from the gay community...
http://qz.com/195769/mozilla-only-made-things-worse-by-letting-ceo-brandon-eich-go/
Quartz
This has been a rough week for the open web.
Last week, Mozilla Corporation, makers of the ever-popular Firefox web
browser, appointed co-founder Brendan Eich to CEO. The move was not
surprising---Eich, after all, invented Javascript, the web's lingua
franca---but it would turn into a PR nightmare
<http://www.advocate.com/business/technology/2014/03/26/mozilla-ceo-responds-antigay-allegations>
for Mozilla after it was made public that Eich donated $1,000 to
California's now-infamous Proposition 8, which would deny LGBT
Californians the right to marriage. The appointment shook up not only
Mozilla's development staff, some of whom took to Twitter to call for
Eich's resignation, but also Mozilla's board, three of whose members
resigned upon his taking the position.
The internet went into an uproar. Twitter branded Eich a homophobe and
"pure hate." Dating site OKCupid greeted its Firefox users with a
splash screen urging them to switch browsers. More than 70,000 people
<http://www.wired.com/2014/04/brendan-eichs-downfall/> signed onto a
CREDO Mobile petition calling for Eich's resignation. As a gay
developer, I have just one thing to say:
The internet just cut off its nose to spite its Facebook.
Despite Eich's (and Mozilla's) restating his commitment to LGBT
equality, apologizing, and even upholding a transgender-inclusive
health policy, Eich resigned as CEO this week, as Mozilla disclosed on
its company blog
<https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/04/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/>.
He lasted only 11 days.
Javascript is the world's most ubiquitous computing run-time language
<http://blog.codinghorror.com/javascript-the-lingua-franca-of-the-web/>.
It is /the/ scripting language which turns "web pages" into
functioning applications. When I started in web development in 1997,
Javascript was in its infancy. Over nearly two decades, I've seen it
outgrow the web browser into server-side implementations, I've seen it
go mobile, take over Flash as animation engine, and spawn millions of
ideas on github. None of this would have been possible without Brendan
Eich.
One does not simply let Pablo Picasso go from the art school
faculty---Eich's talent alone makes him indispensable. And, as one
self-identified "LGBT activist" developer at Mozilla wrote
<http://valianttry.us/caught-between-two-movements/>, Mozilla is a
unique example of people of "differing and diverse beliefs" working
together to "save the open web."
But, apparently, not all beliefs.
I would never defend a homophobe---but does "pure hate" homophobia
include dedicating oneself to outreach to "marginalized" LGBT
developers, as Eich did almost immediately
<https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/>? Does
Mozilla further its cause-privacy /uber alles/ and the free flow of
information---by making its pioneers into pariahs in social media,
while issuing blatantly hypocritical statements which claim to
treasure "religious diversity" at Mozilla? (And did anyone flinch
when Mark Zuckerberg held GOP fundraisers
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie_n_2542652.html>?)
Is what we want "politically correct web browsing" where the
Twittersphere and "socially conscious corporations" determine whose
ideas are disseminated? Is this the open internet, or shall the
open-source web be verboten to those "on the wrong side of history"?
It is undeniable that public opinion is rapidly shifting toward LGBT
equality, marriage included. But it should be equally undeniable that
the organization dedicated to the internet as "global public resource
<http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/>" should understand
that the "global public" also contains people who---on their own
time---espouse, advocate, and sometimes monetarily support foreign,
even ugly, views. Brendan Eich, who "kept his views
<http://www.newsweek.com/mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-resigns-after-controversy-over-anti-gay-marriage-past-244204>"
(which he called irrelevant to his mission) on LGBT marriage "out of
Mozilla for 15 years," should not have his life's work invalidated by
bygone donations.
We, especially those of us in the open source community, both LGBT and
heterosexual, reap the benefits of Eich's work every day. And I am
curious to see if Firefox OS will take off for mobile without someone
as uniquely qualified as Eich at the helm.
I lament Eich's departure from Mozilla, but as one of the greatest
pioneers of American computing, I'm sure he won't be unemployed for long.
Hey, Huawei's probably hiring
<http://www.mobileburn.com/20558/news/huawei-developing-its-own-mobile-operating-system-as-a-backup-to-android>.
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